Common use of PROFICIENCY LEVELS Clause in Contracts

PROFICIENCY LEVELS. BASIC COMPETENT ADVANCED EXPERT • Achieves agreement or consensus in an adversarial environment; • Guides the municipality through complexity and uncertainty of vision; • Leads and unites diverse workgroups across municipal departments to achieve municipality objectives, and • Develops and implements risk management. • Articulates basic financial concepts and techniques as they relate to municipal processes and tasks (e.g. performance budgeting and value for money); • Is familiar with the different sources of financial data, reporting mechanisms and financial processes and systems; • Understands importance of financial accountability; • Understands the necessity for asset control; • Recognises key expenditure and financial accounting and reporting concepts; • Performs key financial management processes (expenditure, accounting and reporting) with guidance / direction; • Tracks and measures actual expenditure against budget; and • Understands the role of an audit function. • Demonstrates knowledge of general concepts of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting and how they interrelate; • manages, monitors and assess financial risk; • Continuously looks for new opportunities to obtain and save funds; • ensures the preparation of the financial reports based on prescribed format; • understands and weighs up financial implications of propositions; • ensures the control assets according to prescribed policies and procedures; • understands, analyses and monitors financial reports; • allocates resources to established goals and objectives; • Manage expenditure in relation to cash flow projections; • Ensures effective utilisation of financial resources; • Ensures key planning, budgeting and forecasting processes and is able to answer questions in relation to the municipality’s budget; • Ensures the management of the financial planning, forecasting and reporting processes; • Ensures the preparation of budgets that are aligned to the strategic objectives of the municipality’s Integrated Development Plan (IDP); • Addresses complex budgeting and financial management issues; • Ensures the formulation of long term financial plans and resource allocations; • Ensures the development and implementation of systems, procedures and processes in order to improve financial management; • Advise on policies and procedures regarding asset control; • Develops planning tools that assist with evaluating and monitoring future expenditure trends; • Ensures and monitors the setting of budgeting guidelines for the municipality; • Sets strategic direction for the organisation / department in relation to expenditure and other financial processes; • Ensures the identification and implementation of partnerships and explores other avenues to achieve financial savings and improved service delivery; • Ensures the identification and implementation of new techniques to improve asset control; • Evaluates financial impact of strategic decisions across the organisation; BASIC COMPETENT ADVANCED EXPERT • Develops corrective measures / actions to ensure alignment of budget to financial resources; and • Makes realistic projections in routine reports. • Dynamically allocates resources according to internal and external objectives; • Ensure the development of Expenditure Key Performance Indicators (KPIs); • Succeeds in achieving maximum results with limited resources; • Assists others with financial accounting \ reporting tasks; and • Analyse projections in reports. • Ensures the development of long-term plans, performance measures and budgets that are aligned with strategic objectives; and • Possesses financial acumen and understanding and runs the finances according to sound principles.

PROFICIENCY LEVELS. BASIC COMPETENT ADVANCED EXPERT •  Achieves agreement or consensus in an adversarial environment; •  Guides the municipality through complexity and uncertainty of vision; •  Leads and unites diverse workgroups across municipal departments to achieve municipality objectives, and •  Develops and implements risk management. •  Articulates basic financial concepts and techniques as they relate to municipal processes and tasks (e.g. performance budgeting and value for money); •  Is familiar with the different sources of financial data, reporting mechanisms and financial processes and systems; •  Understands importance of financial accountability; •  Understands the necessity for asset control; •  Recognises key expenditure and financial accounting and reporting concepts; •  Performs key financial management processes (expenditure, accounting and reporting) with guidance / direction; •  Tracks and measures actual expenditure against budget; and •  Understands the role of an audit function. •  Demonstrates knowledge of general concepts of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting and how they interrelate; •  manages, monitors and assess financial risk; •  Continuously looks for new opportunities to obtain and save funds; •  ensures the preparation of the financial reports based on prescribed format; •  understands and weighs up financial implications of propositions; •  ensures the control assets according to prescribed policies and procedures; •  understands, analyses and monitors financial reports; •  allocates resources to established goals and objectives; •  Manage expenditure in relation to cash flow projections; •  Ensures effective utilisation of financial resources; •  Ensures key planning, budgeting and forecasting processes and is able to answer questions in relation to the municipality’s budget; •  Ensures the management of the financial planning, forecasting and reporting processes; •  Ensures the preparation of budgets that are aligned to the strategic objectives of the municipality’s Integrated Development Plan (IDP); •  Addresses complex budgeting and financial management issues; •  Ensures the formulation of long term financial plans and resource allocations; •  Ensures the development and implementation of systems, procedures and processes in order to improve financial management; •  Advise on policies and procedures regarding asset control; •  Develops planning tools that assist with evaluating and monitoring future expenditure trends; •  Ensures and monitors the setting of budgeting guidelines for the municipality; •  Sets strategic direction for the organisation / department in relation to expenditure and other financial processes; •  Ensures the identification and implementation of partnerships and explores other avenues to achieve financial savings and improved service delivery; •  Ensures the identification and implementation of new techniques to improve asset control; •  Evaluates financial impact of strategic decisions across the organisation; BASIC COMPETENT ADVANCED EXPERT •  Develops corrective measures / actions to ensure alignment of budget to financial resources; and •  Makes realistic projections in routine reports. •  Dynamically allocates resources according to internal and external objectives; •  Ensure the development of Expenditure Key Performance Indicators (KPIs); •  Succeeds in achieving maximum results with limited resources; •  Assists others with financial accounting \ reporting tasks; and •  Analyse projections in reports. •  Ensures the development of long-term plans, performance measures and budgets that are aligned with strategic objectives; and •  Possesses financial acumen and understanding and runs the finances according to sound principles.

PROFICIENCY LEVELS. BASIC COMPETENT ADVANCED EXPERT • Achieves  achieves agreement or consensus in an adversarial environment; • Guides  guides the municipality through complexity and uncertainty of vision; • Leads  leads and unites diverse workgroups across municipal departments to achieve municipality objectives, and • Develops  develops and implements risk management. •  Articulates basic financial concepts and techniques as they relate to municipal processes and tasks (e.g. performance budgeting and value for money); • Is  is familiar with the different sources of financial data, reporting mechanisms and financial processes and systems; • Understands  understands importance of financial accountability; • Understands  understands the necessity for asset control; • Recognises  recognises key expenditure and financial accounting and reporting concepts; • Performs  performs key financial management processes (expenditure, accounting and reporting) with guidance / direction; • Tracks  tracks and measures actual expenditure against budget; and • Understands  understands the role of an audit function. •  Demonstrates knowledge of general concepts of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting and how they interrelate; •  manages, monitors and assess financial risk; • Continuously  continuously looks for new opportunities to obtain and save funds; •  ensures the preparation of the financial reports based on prescribed format; •  understands and weighs up financial implications of propositions; •  ensures the control assets according to prescribed policies and procedures; •  understands, analyses and monitors financial reports; •  allocates resources to established goals and objectives; • Manage  manage expenditure in relation to cash flow projections; • Ensures  ensures effective utilisation of financial resources; •  Ensures key planning, budgeting and forecasting processes and is able to answer questions in relation to the municipality’s budget; • Ensures  ensures the management of the financial planning, forecasting and reporting processes; • Ensures  ensures the preparation of budgets that are aligned to the strategic objectives of the municipality’s Integrated Development Plan (IDP); • Addresses  addresses complex budgeting and financial management issues; • Ensures  ensures the formulation of long term financial plans and resource allocations; • Ensures  ensures the development and implementation of systems, procedures and processes in order to improve financial management; • Advise  advise on policies and procedures regarding asset control; •  Develops planning tools that assist with evaluating and monitoring future expenditure trends; • Ensures  ensures and monitors the setting of budgeting guidelines for the municipality; • Sets  sets strategic direction for the organisation / department in relation to expenditure and other financial processes; • Ensures  ensures the identification and implementation of partnerships and explores other avenues to achieve financial savings and improved service delivery; • Ensures  ensures the identification and implementation of new techniques to improve asset control; • Evaluates  evaluates financial impact of strategic decisions across the organisation; BASIC COMPETENT ADVANCED EXPERT • Develops  develops corrective measures / actions to ensure alignment of budget to financial resources; and • Makes  makes realistic projections in routine reports. • Dynamically  dynamically allocates resources according to internal and external objectives; • Ensure  ensure the development of Expenditure Key Performance Indicators (KPIs); • Succeeds  succeeds in achieving maximum results with limited resources; • Assists  assists others with financial accounting \ reporting tasks; and • Analyse  analyse projections in reports. • Ensures  ensures the development of long-term plans, performance measures and budgets that are aligned with strategic objectives; and • Possesses  possesses financial acumen and understanding and runs the finances according to sound principles.